DEI Image: Job Title: Assistant Professor Our spotlight this week features Dr. Jon Forrest and his course offering for Fall 2023, Language, Race, & Ethnicity in the U.S. Dr. Forrest emphasizes that understanding the relationship between language and race is important educationally as well as personally. In our everyday lives, the linguistic differences that we notice among peers and strangers alike are largely impacted by race. Students from Georgia are intimately familiar with these differences—Georgia houses the most diverse county in the Southeast, and has the 9th highest diversity index in the U.S. as of the 2020 census. Dr. Forrest’s class seeks to expand on students’ existing knowledge of racialized language and to give them an idea of the breadth of linguistic differences in the US. Click the link below to read more about the importance of race to linguistics and about what Dr. Forrest hopes students will take away from his class. Dr. Jon Forrest nominated for Spotlight on Inclusive Excellence Personal Website: Linguistics Profile
